.PHZ03A0A9THV8.] ACAXTIJACEJE. 199 



narrow. Corolla tubular, carved upwards, tube narrowly funnel- 

 shaped, limb more or lees sMipped ; lobes ovate or oblong, connivcnt, 

 spreading or recurved, imbricale in bud. Stamens 2, with sometimes 

 2 small rudiments added ; ant litis 2 -celled, oblong, muticous. glab- 

 rous. Ovary with. 6-8 ovules in each cell, glabrous, style filiform, 

 stigma sabsimple. Fruit an elongated many-seeded capsule, some- 

 what 4-angled. Seeds from the base of the capsule, lenticular, ovate 

 in outline, glabrous or densely pubemlous.— Species about 12, Hima- 

 layan, also in Burma and Malaya. 



P. thyrsiflorus, Ness in Wall. PI. As. Rar. Hi, 99; Royle III. 298 ■ 

 F. B.I. iv,512; Watt E. I).; Kanjilal For. Fl. 260: Gamble Man. Ind. 

 Timb. 523 ; Brand. Ind. Trees 501. Justicia thyrsiflora, Roxb. Fl. lad. 

 i,U4. 



An evergreon shrub, up to 8 ft. high, with smooth grey bark ; shoots swol- 

 len at the nodes, often tinged with dull purple, 4-angled. Leaves 

 drooping, 6-8 in. long, elliotic-lanoeolate, obtuse, subentire, dark green 

 and glossy above, paler beneath and densely pnnctulate, petioles £ to 

 1 in. long. Flcncers pedieelled. crowded in verticils of four, forming 

 terminal elongate thyrsoid panicles up to 12 in. long ; bracts subulate, 

 conspicuous in bud, l-\ in. long, arranged in threes, the 2 inner ones 

 persistent ; the outer larger, caiucous. Calyx-segments |-| in. long, 

 bristle-like, hairy. Corolla orange-coloured or brick-red, villous, tube 

 laterally compressed ; upper lip suberect, deeply emarginate ; lower 

 spreading, of 3 ovate acute lobes. Anthers dark-brown pollen white. 

 Capsule li in. long, linear-clavate, glabrous. Seeds 12-14, densely hairy. 



Common in moist shady places in the forests of Dehra Dun and Saharan- 

 pur, also on the Siwalik Range and eastwards in the Sub-Himalayan 

 tracts of Eohilkhand and N. Oudh. Flowers Mar and Apr. Distrib. 

 Snbtrop. Hiaialayaup to 4,(00 ft. from the Ravi to Bhutan, also in 

 Assam, Chota Nagpur and extending to Upper and Lower Burma. 



18. BARLERIA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 482. 



Small shrubs or undershrubs, spinous or unarmed. Leaves opposite, 

 entire. Flowers showy, sessile, solitary or in dense or rather lax- 

 spikes or racemes, bracts and bracteoles large, small or none. Calyx 

 deeply 4 -partite ; segments in opposite pairs, outer pair much larger. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped, tube elongate ; lobes 5, subequal, ovate or 

 elliptic, imbricate in bud. Stamens 2, fertile, with oblong 2-celled 

 anthers ; '2 small rudimentary stamens sometimes containing a little 

 pollen are also usually present, with often a rudimentary 5th stamen. 

 Disk large, often as a toothed cup half enclosing the ovary. Ovary 

 ■with 2 ovules in each cell, st\le long, stigma bifid or subentire. Fruit 

 an ovoid or obbng capsule, 2 or 4-seeded below the middle. Seeds 



